U. S. Army Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course Reading List

(source) The mission of 2-11 IN is to educate, train, and inspire Infantry Lieutenants so that upon IBOLC graduation, they demonstrate the competence, confidence, physical and mental toughness, and moral/ethical fiber necessary to lead platoons in any operational environment.

This revision was published March 2014.

Book cover for Once An Eagle

Book cover for The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

Book cover for House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

Book cover for Platoon Leader - A Memoir of Command in Combat

Book cover for Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Book cover for No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

Book cover for What It Is Like To Go To War

Book cover for Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

Book cover for Infantry Attacks

Book cover for We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Book cover for East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950

Book cover for The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Book cover for America's First Battles, 1776-1965

Book cover for Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Book cover for Maneuver Warfare Handbook

Book cover for A Message to Garcia

Book cover for Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Book cover for Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

Book cover for The Defense Of Duffer's Drift

Book cover for The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa

Book cover for Nightmare on Wazir Street

Book cover for Washington's Crossing

Book cover for On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace